Experience Bluesky with a native client, across all of your Apple devices.
A timeline that never loses your place, threads that read like conversations, group chats, long-form Publications, and a theme engine that repaints every surface in the app.
Free to download. One app, every Apple device you own.
Announcing major new features for Skyscraper
Skyscraper grew a theme engine, a real Mac app, a reading mode for long-form publishing, and a pile of things that only sound small until you use them every day.
Build a theme, pixel by pixel
Pick a background, a cell color, an embed color, text and accent — and watch a real post redraw as you type the hex codes. Name it, save it, export it, and it follows you to every device over iCloud. Skyscraper Midnite, the palette this whole site is built on, is one of them.
Community Themes
Browse, search and install palettes other people built. Free to apply; Pro to submit your own.
Long-form, in the feed
Read full standard.site articles from publishers you subscribe to — including the ones they never cross-posted to Bluesky.
Share a post as an image
Renders the text, photos, video poster, link card and the quoted post into one card. Themed, sized to its content, transparent corners intact.
OCR, on device
Open any screenshot and pull the text straight out of it — copy it, or have it read aloud. Nothing leaves your phone.
Trending stories
A swipeable carousel of what Bluesky is actually talking about: headline, summary, post count, and the faces behind it. Tap one to open its feed.
View Labels
Every moderation label on a post — what it means, who applied it, and when. Plus quote-post mutes and repost mutes that sync back to Bluesky.
Account Data
Browse your own AT Protocol repository from inside the app — in raw lexicon, or in plain English.
Replies that make sense on their own
A reply now shows the post the conversation actually started from, with a link to everything in between. Self-threads get numbered, outlined and collapsed. Threads of videos play inline. And you can edit your own reply without it falling out of its thread.
Group chats, grown up
Create groups, reply to messages, react with tapbacks, attach content, keep drafts, spell-check as you type, export a conversation, and long-press to peek at one without marking it read. Read state syncs across your devices over iCloud.
One app. Five platforms. No compromises borrowed from the others.
The Mac build isn't the iPhone app in a window, and the iPad build isn't the iPhone app stretched. Each one gets the navigation its platform expects.
Mac
Multi-column panels with saved layouts and width presets, a real menu bar, a Settings window, a Dock menu, vim motions, drag-out images, a Share Extension and a resizable image viewer you can page through with the arrow keys.
iPad
A proper split view with a sidebar you can hide and it stays hidden, feed like counts in the sidebar, post content laid out at the row's real width, and a floating feed selector that doesn't collide with your replies.
Apple Watch & Vision Pro
A watch app with your feed, post detail, likes and reposts, plus a recent-post complication. On Vision Pro, a native visionOS build with its own text size and spatial layout.
Everything else Skyscraper does.
A client you use every day earns its keep in the details. Here are most of them.
Timeline
- A UIKit collection-view engine built for smooth scrolling
- Your reading position kept to the pixel, across tabs and launches
- Live scroll sync between devices over iCloud
- An accurate "posts above" counter
- Pinned feeds, custom feeds, lists and saved searches
- Floating feed selector, with menus on the gear and avatar
- Full-size image previews that don't crop wide photos
- Relative timestamps, or the actual clock time
Threads & replies
- Replies open from the thread root, not a mid-thread fragment
- "Show full thread" for everything in between
- Quoted posts rendered in full inside reply context
- Mentions, links and hashtags colored like mentions
- Self-threads numbered, outlined and collapsed
- Edit your own reply without it leaving its thread
- Threadgate-aware reply controls
Composing
- Posts, replies, quotes and whole threads
- Drafts synced through Bluesky's own draft API
- Up to 10 photos, alt text, GIF picker and video
- Mention and hashtag autocomplete
- Per-post languages and a character counter
- Translate what you've written before you post it
- Share Extension, plus an "Open in Skyscraper" Safari extension
Media
- A full-screen viewer that rotates, zooms and saves
- On-device OCR for the text inside a screenshot
- Native GIF playback — no hidden web views
- Video with one player at a time and audio that behaves
- Link cards laid out at the real 1200×630 ratio
- Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp embeds
- Share any post as an image
Chat
- Group chats, replies and tapback reactions
- Peek at a conversation without marking it read
- Drafts, spell check, muting and conversation export
- Read state merged across devices over iCloud
- Granular chat notification settings
- Send a post straight into a DM
- Join group-chat invite links in the app
Notifications
- Push for mentions, replies, likes, reposts, quotes and follows
- Activity subscriptions for accounts you follow closely
- Grouping on All, plain lists on filtered tabs
- Per-type filter tabs that fetch their own kind
- Badge counts that agree with the list
- This Week's Activity recap
Discovery
- Trending stories carousel in Explore
- Trending hashtags, filterable by language
- Live search that updates as you type
- Advanced filters, saveable as a pinned feed
- Feed browser showing how many people like each feed
- Starter packs, lists and Find Friends
- LIVE badges that open the stream
Moderation
- Mute words, reposts, replies and quote posts
- Repost mutes that sync back to Bluesky
- View Labels: what, who and when
- Content language filters
- Block from the timeline, notifications or a hashtag feed
- Report posts and accounts
Accounts & sync
- OAuth with DPoP-bound tokens, or app passwords
- Multiple accounts, stored in the Keychain
- Alternate PDS support, including Eurosky
- iCloud sync for feed order, scroll position, chat read state and saved searches
- Account Data: browse your repository in lexicon or plain English
- Full HTML and JSON backup of your posts
Stats & recaps
- Activity heatmaps for posts, favorites and follows
- Posting streaks
- Week, month and year recaps
- Your most-liked and most-reposted posts
- Newest followers, most popular follows, mutuals
Personalization
- Fully custom color palettes, saved and named
- Community Themes browser
- 15 app icons, including Midnite
- Dual accent colors and action-icon styles
- Per-platform text size
- Light and dark, or a palette of your own
Everything else
- Localized into 8 languages
- VoiceOver actions throughout
- Polls, starter packs and list management
- Inline post translation
- Developer Notes, in-app tips and a changelog
- Email your logs when something goes wrong
Free to use. Pro if you want more.
The app is free, and the parts you need to read Bluesky all day are free with it. Pro exists so it can keep being built.
Free
Everything you need to actually read Bluesky.
- The full timeline, threads, custom feeds and lists
- Posting, replies, quotes, whole threads and drafts
- Direct messages and group chats
- Search, Explore and trending stories
- Community Themes — browse and apply any shared palette
- Media, OCR, Share as Image and Publications
- Every platform — iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, Vision Pro
Skyscraper Pro
Monthly or yearly. Cancel whenever.
- The theme engine — build, name and save your own palette
- Custom accent colors, app icons and profile icon styles
- Unlimited Bluesky accounts
- Edit your profile, avatar and bio
- Push notifications for replies, likes and mentions
- Start new DM conversations
- Archive your account as HTML and JSON
- Filter trending hashtags by language
- Submit your themes to the community browser
A toolkit for the rest of Bluesky.
Things that don't belong in a phone app, built anyway.
Terminal client
A full TUI client for Bluesky on macOS. Browse your timeline, post and reply without leaving the terminal. Install it with Homebrew.
Get the TUI clientTrending hashtags
A live leaderboard of what's climbing on Bluesky right now — this hour, today, this week or this month.
See what's trendingKeyword alerts
Get an email when a keyword shows up on Bluesky. Watch your name, your brand, or a conversation you don't want to miss.
Set up alertsAccount backups
Download a full backup of any public Bluesky account — posts, followers and following, as HTML or JSON. Two free backups a day.
Back up an accountThe dev blog
What broke, what we learned, and what the numbers actually say. ATProtocol write-ups, Bluesky growth data and the occasional post-mortem.
Read the blogOpen in Skyscraper
A Safari extension that routes bsky.app links into the app, so a link someone sent you opens where you actually read.
Included with the app
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Requires iOS 18.3 · macOS 15.2 · watchOS 11 · visionOS 26